CVE-2018-18329 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac (Consumer) versions 7.0 and above. It stems from an untrusted pointer dereference due to insufficient validation of a user-supplied buffer, allowing a low-privileged local attacker to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability poses a significant risk as it grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 7.0, <= 7.1.1124CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 8.0, <= 8.0.3082CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2018:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.0, <= 9.0.1356CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:antivirus_for_mac_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.